Seminar on Using iNaturalist App to Help Our Environment

Subduing Knotweed Coalition

Thursday August 15 6:30 pm 2023

 Registration iNaturalist Seminar Subduing Knotweed Coalition

Zoom link for Seminar

Join us for a seminar on how to use the app iNaturalist.   It is a fascinating tool for understanding and recording so much information about our environment.   The Subduing Knotweed Coalition has realized the most effective way to combat the incredibly invasive and destructive knotweed is to find it and dig it up when it is at a new place and before it becomes a large colony.  For this to be effective, we need people to step up and help.   Mapping knotweed is an easy task.    Take a walk down your road or along a stream and take pictures of knotweed--go home and upload them to the knotweed app and either report new or small patches to the Coalition or dig them up yourself.  iNaturalist Instructions

What We Should Know about Knotweed 101 - Presentation by Mary Jo Maffei
Thursday February 8th at 6:30 2023, The Hitchcock Center for the Environment

What do we need to know about Knotweed, what are its environmental impacts, and what can we do about it? This talk will explore how and why knotweed destabilizes soils, which amplifies and exacerbates erosion along waterways. This impact on soil stability allows us to frameshift this group of invasive plants from a “merely” ecological problem into a “shovel ready” climate resiliency opportunity to protect ecosystems, infrastructure, and private property from flood damage.